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Film Review: “Brad’s Status” — A Triumphant Comedy About Male Failure

September 22, 2017
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This downer comedy is a triumphant entry into the botched, washout male category of cinema.

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Film Review: The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival — Cozy and Smart

September 20, 2017
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The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival is leisurely and unpretentious — and addictive.

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Film Review: Hell is Other People — Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!”

September 16, 2017
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Chaos threatens to usurp the plot, but Jennifer Lawrence’s luminous performance keeps the story, such as it is, moving along.

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Film Review: “mother!” — Welcome to the Pagan Cult of the Eye

September 15, 2017
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No doubt many will find director Darren Aronofsky’s transgressive vision overwrought, but the film is undeniably powerful.

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Film Preview: The Brattle Theatre Presents All Tilda Swinton, All the Time

September 14, 2017
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Just about every night at the Brattle through September 23 is Tilda Swinton night. What’s not be thrilled about?

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Film Review: “Served Like a Girl” — A Unique Look at Women in Combat

September 6, 2017
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Served Like a Girl offers an intense and gratifying look at the first wave of American women in combat.

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Film Review: “Night of the Vampire” Marathon — A Bloody Good Time

September 2, 2017
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The HFA marathon is a wonderful blend of arty and popular films that span the decades and feature bloodsuckers.

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Film Review: “In Transit” — Albert Maysles’s Marvelous Final Testament

August 31, 2017
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Everyone who loves documentary, who cherishes the Maysles brothers’ legacy, should rush to the Brattle Theatre to see In Transit.

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Arts Appreciation — Jerry Lewis, A Comic Actor of Glorious Contradictions

August 21, 2017
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We’re losing Lewis’s generation of Depression-bred, Borscht Belt-weaned entertainers with their un-ironic neediness for laughs and their canny way of getting them.

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Film Review: “The Trip to Spain” — Out of Decadence, Epiphany

August 18, 2017
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We want to see how looming middle age is treating these two friends, whose intersecting careers and self-images shape their relationship.

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